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...government proposal at the heart of the conflict aims to reserve an additional 27% of university seats for the unfortunately termed "Other Backward Classes (OBC)" - those who, while not on the lowest rung of the social ladder, are not far from it. Once the new quotas go into effect at the start of the 2007 school year, nearly 50% of seats at elite universities such as AIIMS or the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology will be set aside for members of the lower castes...
Despite the drama over the president’s pay, Summers still remains one of the lowest earners among Ivy League chiefs. His salary ranked sixth among the eight Ivy presidents in a 2005 survey conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...group says the army has left communities without enough grain to feed themselves, despite a year of bumper harvests. The food grab and increasing militarization of the government comes as annual inflation passed 1,000% on Friday. The World Health Organization says Zimbabweans now have the world's lowest life expectancy, due to poverty, hiv/aids and the collapse of the country's health-care system. Says Cross: "The mood in Zimbabwe is one of resignation and misery." Without change, "we will end up as a small country with 6 million poor peasants who do what they are told...
...direct, local, and pure; at the other, service in a form that is indirect, broad, and clouded by questions of sincerity and ambition (direct service at one end, business at the other, with political work somewhere in between). The most direct service tends to be the least glamorous, the lowest paying, and the least pursued; the least direct tends to be the most glamorous, the highest paying, and the most widely applied for in the rush of fall recruiting season...